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jjsipes
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 298
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:23 pm Post subject: AMT 1/16 scale 1985 Ford Thunderbird |
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Has anybody built one of these? I remember building one in my youth but do not remember how badly molded the body was. Trying to work on it to getit to look better. The window side looked to big, the window sill looked to low, the quarter window wrong shape, the body line through the door appears to low ( should align with the same line in front bumper and behind the rear wheel opening).
I grabbed my razor saw and started to cut. I moved the window sill up and recontoured the flow into the quarter panels. Reshaped the quarter window. I still need to look at the body line through the door. Would like to do something with the bulging front fenders but not sure about the front track width yet.
First picture is what is in the box.
The second picture is what I have done so far. Thinking it looks better to my eye.
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jjsipes
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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I've studying what to do with the bulging front fenders. Looked at the front track width and determined that I could not narrow up the front fenders without alot of suspension work. Started measuring the body and found the the width from driver side to the passenger side in front of the rear wheel opening was wider that the width right behind the front wheel openings. That means the body pinches in from rear to front in the door area. Just determined that maybe the best avenue to take would be to try and blend the front fender bulge into the doors. The body is looking better to me. Need to finish up cleaning up both sides and to see about whether I need that body line back in through the doors or not. I feel like it's hard to get a picture to illustrate what I have done.
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jjsipes
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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Took a minute last week before the rain and storms hit today and sprayed some primer to see what I had and what I need to work on yet.
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RacerRon13
Joined: 12 May 2021 Posts: 29
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Looking good so far. |
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